Amu groaned in frustration, the throbbing pain in her head annoying her to no end. How long had this been going on? She didn't know. All she knew was that wedding planning was a huge pain in the ass and a living hell. Stupid wedding, stupid flowers, stupid restaurant, stupid wedding dress...stupid Ikuto for only giving her two weeks to plan the wedding. That idiot, only giving her two weeks to plan “their wedding” and leaving everything in her hands. What did he think? That she was wonderwoman or something? And how about moving all around the place looking for everything they needed? Sure she had a car, but damn that traffic. If only her car would sprout wings and just fly to the shops. It would surely save her the many headaches that she was going through with right now. Yes, traffic is a pain and the cause of her throbbing head.

That's where she's right now. Stuck in traffic. She was at least glad that she didn't have a shop to go to. She just had to meet up with Ikuto in a nearby café, having received a call from him earlier that day. Thanks to traffic she was already 10 minutes late, surely Ikuto was brimming with impatience right about now.

A vein started to slowly pop on Amu's forehead, blood rushing to her brain as she shook in anger. Not only had Ikuto left all the wedding planning to her but he was now also giving her orders to meet up with him. The nerve of him...

But before Amu could utter a string of fluent curses, the traffic started to move and she drove on. At last, she would get to free herself from all the honking going around outside. With a sigh of relief, she drived steadily, her mind trying to calm down, careful not to upset her karma.

And then the car's stopped again...

“Karma's a bitch!” Amu screeched in anger before she banged her head on her car's wheel, leaving a huge red spot on her forehead.

--

Ikuto stirred his coffee once more before turning to look at his watch, a slight frown making its way onto his handsome face as the minutes dragged on. He had now been waiting for Amu for approximately an hour, his patience decreasing with each passing second. He had specially taken time out of his busy schedule to meet up with her, feeling slightly guilty for leaving all the wedding planning to her. At first he thought it would be fun to torture her, make her plan everything and go ballistic over every single little detail. But then he had received a call from her, his right ear on the brink of exploding as she yelled and threw a tantrum over how stressing everything was. Since he wasn't a heartless guy, he decided to help her out with the wedding planning, even if it was just a little bit. But this...Being this late was not acceptable!

A small 'Tch' escaped from Ikuto's lips, his elegant eyebrows coming to furrow themselves in slight annoyance. A few seconds later, the sound of the cafés door opening caught his attention, his eyes coming to settle themselves on the pink-head dashing towards his direction.

“You're late,” Ikuto said, a hint of annoyance evident in his voice, “by an hour.”

Amu shot him a glare before sitting down in the chair in across from him, setting her purse down on the table with a loud 'bang'. She proceeded to glare at Ikuto as the waiter came to take her order and the latter could not help but to feel slightly amused.

“What?” Ikuto asked, one of his eyebrows raised in question as he watched Amu sip her coffee, her glare still piercing at him, “quit glaring at me. Even if you do, my good looks won't melt.”

If possible Amu only glared harder at him, setting down her cup of coffee with more force than needed.

Amu let a small 'ugh' escape from her lips before opening her mouth to rant, “It's been hell for me these past two days. Wedding planning isn't my thing. Its so stressful and annoying! You should help me, you're the one who dragged me into this mess in the first place!”

“Are you stupid or something? Planning a wedding in just two weeks isn't something I like for your information! To top it all off, I have to do everything alone! You like torturing me don't you? Quit being such a prick and help me. Its also your wedding after all.”

Ikuto leaned forward on the table, his hands coming to support his chin as he stared straight at Amu, a small smile on his face, “ Not of your liking? But I'm sure you were one of those girls that played wedding with her Ken and Barbie dolls when they were small.”

Amu's face flushed red with embarrassment as Ikuto chuckled softly, “Oh, did I hit a soft spot there Amu?”

“I'm not teasing you, I'm torturing you. I'm not the typical Ken, my dear Barbie” Ikuto smirked, ducking with speed afterwards as Amu swung her purse at his head, just missing contact by a few milliseconds.

--

“Stop glaring at me,” Ikuto said now slightly annoyed, “you've been doing it for the past half hour. I already said that I was sorry about the Barbie thing.”

“I'm not buying it,” Amu said, her golden eyes still not dropping their glare, “you'll probably tease me about it again soon.”

Ikuto heaved a sigh, one of his hands coming to run his long fingers through his blue locks, “Fine then, keep glaring at me and see if I'll help you plan the wedding. And here I was planning on helping with some of the details just because I was feeling slightly guilty.”

“Y-you what?” Amu said, her mouth slight agape as she stared at Ikuto with disbelief, “you're seriously planning on helping me with the wedding? You're not some mean ogre and actually have a heart that took pity on me?”

Ikuto slightly frowned at Amu's choice of words to describe him but nodded his head in response, “That's why I called you here. I took time out of my schedule to see what I could help you with.”

For the first time since they had met, Amu flashed a smile at Ikuto, the corners of her lips raised as she positively beamed. Ikuto looked slightly surprised at her actions, his sapphire eyes widening slightly but coming back to their normal state after a few seconds. The mood between them seemed to relax as Amu now explained some of the wedding details to Ikuto, her tone of voice softer now that she wasn't angry anymore.

“Ok, so we can meet up tomorrow to go choose the place for our wedding to take place. How does that sound?” Amu asked Ikuto as she finished the last of her coffee, waiting for his response as he thought it over.

“It works for me, I'll be taking breaks for these next weeks so I can help you. Besides, its better to be out and about planning something rather than being closed up in a studio practicing my violin.”

“That's good then,” Amu said, her lips tilting up slightly as she smiled at Ikuto once more. However after a few seconds, both of them jumped in their chairs as they heard a car crash outside the café. All the customers inside got up to go see the ruckus, but only one voice yelled to the heavens at what they saw.

“My car!” Amu screamed in horror before fainting on the spot, only managing to avoid the horrid fall as Ikuto catched her from behind.

--

Amu opened her eyes lazily to be met by concerned sapphire eyes staring at her. She jumped in surprise only to hit her head on something hard. Looking up with a dazed look, her eyes meet with what seemed to be a car's rooftop.

“Where am I?” she turned around to ask Ikuto, who was currently sitting on the driver's seat, his eyes no longer staring at her with concern.

“We're in my car. Your car was crashed into remember? You fainted and I carried you here to my car. Your car's a mess, they're currently outside picking it up actually,” Ikuto said and Amu swung his car 's door open, “hey! Where are you going?!”

Amu did not answer him as she closed the car's door, taking quick steps afterwards to where the pickup truck was, Ikuto following close behind as he too climbed out of his car.

“Who crashed into my car?!” Amu shot at the nearest police officer, who looked shocked at her sudden appearance and outburst.

“It was him,” the police officer answered, his index finger pointing at a young teenage boy around the age of 17, his face filled with worry as he looked at the mess he caused.

“You!” Amu screeched out angrily as she strode to the boy with max speed, her pink hair starting to stand up and her golden eyes just about ready to pop out of their sockets.

The boy turned to look at her in horror, his expression showing that he was at the verge of tears now as he started to stutter words of apology, “A-are you the owner of the car? I'm so s-sorry! I didn't mean to do this to your car!”

“Sorry my ass! You're going to pay for this!” Amu yelled angrily as she wrapped her hands around the boy's neck, trying to strangle him with all her might. The boy struggled and tried to push her away, all his efforts in vain as she still strangled him. For a woman, she sure had strength and even though the boy was taller than her, her hands were still choking him.

“Whoa Amu! You're going to kill him!” Amu heard a voice behind her only to turn her head around to see that it was Ikuto.

“But he destroyed my car!” she yelled angrily as she turned to look at the idiot who had done said action, his face now blue with asfixation.

Seeing that Amu was still strangling the poor boy, Ikuto stepped forward and pulled her away from him, his arms wrapping themselves around her waist before pulling her from the poor victim.

“Let me go! I still need to strangle the stupid bastard! The idiot needs to go back to driver's ed and besides, he shouldn't even be driving without an adult by his side! No! He needs to get his stupid head checked instead and then he needs to get thrown into jail!” Amu struggled furiously in Ikuto's arms, her legs trying to kick him to let her go as he still held on to her, his arms set on not letting her go.

The boy was coughing madly as he massaged his throat, his eyes staring at Amu with fury, “Crazy woman! It was just a car! I already said I was sorry. You're overreacting!”

“What?!” Amu snapped indignantly, her nails now digging into Ikuto's hands as she struggled even more to get herself released.

“You needn't be so violent and uptight,” the boy yelled back at her, “y-you need to get laid!”

--

“Well, you did overreact,” Ikuto said mildly to the pink head next to him, her arms crossed as she stared out the window from the passenger's seat. Her eyebrows slightly furrowed in frustration and a small 'hmph' escaping from her lips.

“Look, everything will be ok eventually. Your car will be out of repair soon, in the mean time we can do all the wedding shopping using my car,” Ikuto tried to reason with her, but his eyes bearing a slightly amused sparkle in them as he watched her stubborn act, the back of his mind also registering to never get on her bad side or she might do something drastic and lethal to him.

Amu still said nothing, her eyes set on staring outside the window, a small blush starting to appear on her cheeks before she opened her mouth to speak, “I-its not that...”

Ikuto watched her with amusement in his eyes as she now stared at her lap, her teeth coming to bite her lips nervously, “What is it then?”

Amu refused to look at him as she mumbled something incoherent, the pink on her cheeks starting to darken. She looked extremely embarrassed, her bangs covering her eyes from view.

“Could you say that again? I didn't quite catch what you were trying to say,”

“H-he...h-he said I needed to get laid!” Amu yelled in mortification, her face now completely red and the tips of her ears burning with embarrassment.

“Is that it?” Ikuto said, his mouth twitching to smile as Amu only nodded her head. Before he knew it, he was roaring out in laughter and a smack on his head could be heard.

“Stop laughing!” Amu yelped embarrassed as she repeated to smack Ikuto on the head with her purse, but his peals of laughter still persisting.

“I-I can't...” Ikuto shook with laughter as he kept trying to control himself...

Amu continued to smack him and do any harm possible to him before he calmed down, having just saved them from crashing into a poster as Amu had pushed him, “Hey! Are you trying to get us both killed or something?!”

Amu just crossed her arms and looked away from him in defiance.

--

The rest of the ride was pretty silent, only the quiet voice of Amu giving directions to Ikuto of the direction of her apartment. The silence hung between them, neither of them looking nor speaking to each other until they pulled up in front of Amu's aparment building.

“Thanks for the ride back home,” Amu muttered to Ikuto, her hand opening his car's door and pushing it open.

“Sure thing,” Ikuto nodded back at her, “I'll come pick you up tomorrow around 9 am so that we can go to look at some wedding places.”

“Ok,” Amu said and she stepped out of his car, her hand softly closing the door afterwards.

“Wait,” Ikuto said to her before she could turn around to walk towards the apartment building, his right hand searching in one of the car's departments and pulling out a small, black box from it later.

“Here,” Ikuto said as he threw the box at Amu, “you'll need to start wearing what's inside from now on since we're engaged.”

Amu only stared at him with confusement as he gave her a final wave and drove off. She stood there on the sidewalk, her hands coming to open the small box after a few seconds. Inside lay a silver engagement ring with a sapphire diamond on the center, gleaming under the street lights.

--

Amu walked quickly around her apartment's kitchen and pulled out the milk carton from inside her almost empty fridge. Walking back to her table, she poured some milk into the bowl of cereal that she had previously served herself and proceeded to eat it afterwards. Looking at the clock as she ate, she gave out a small groan as it was almost 9 am. Ikuto would most surely be here any minute now and she still wasn't fully dressed yet. She had overslept like she never had before. Maybe it was because she had been too busy all night, admiring the ring that now shone brightly on her ring finger.

Amu stared down at said object and lost herself again, her eyes still not believing that such an expensive and beautiful ring now adorned her hand. Why would Ikuto give her such an expensive ring? Because they were married duh.

She completely forgot about her breakfast for a few minutes until a knock on the door brought her back to conscious state again. She instantly panicked, as she asumed that it was Ikuto that had come to pick her up. She wasn't even half way ready yet and he would probably snap at her or something.

Was she afraid? Yes, she was very afraid. Why? Because he gave her a ring. Its stupid, she knows...it doesn't even make sense. But now she feels nervous and somewhat uneasy...all because of a stupid ring.

--

Screw being nervous...Amu was pissed. Pissed because the moment Ikuto stepped into her apartment and saw her in pajamas, he teased her and told her strawberries were childish.

'Screw the pervert,'

--

“You eat cereal?”

“I don't know how to cook...”

“No wonder you're all skin and bones. Somehow I guessed that seeing as you look like a starvi-”

'Smack'

--

“No, no. A smaller place would be better for celebrating the wedding.”

“A wedding has to be big and outrageous jerk,”

“You're just saying that because you're using my money!”

--

“You need to lose weight Amu. Your waist looks like an egg. No wonder the poor lady has a hard time measuring you...”

“Out, out, out!”

--

“I'll have a cheese burger and fries,”

“Correction, you'll be having a salad and water. You won't fit into your wedding dress if you keep eating like a pig.”

'Bang'

--

“What's this?”

“Open the bag Barbie,”

“....”

“Do you like it?”

“...”

“Amu?”

“That's it, I'm not marrying you....”

“But its just black lace lingerie!”

--

Amu sighed heavily as she threw herself on her bed. Two weeks had passed already and her wedding would be tomorrow. Everything was ready, the salon, the food, the guests...everything. All that was left were the big “I do”.

“I-I do....DON'T!” She screamed to the room, her face becoming red as she tried again, “I do....n't want to marry you...ARGH!”

“So hard...” Amu sighed again, “Ok....one more time.”

She took a big breath, put a smile on her face and muttered two words.

“I do.”

Yes, tomorrow...she would. She definitely would...

-End of Ch. 3-

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Amu gulped before she looked at Ikuto again, seeing him give her a questioning look.

“Amu...you have to say I do...” Ikuto whispered to her, his eyes urging her to do so.

She turned to look at the crowd, the cameras, her friends and then at the priest.

“I do.”

A/N: Short chapter I know....OTL. -bangs her head on the table and cries galleons of tears-

So I finally came back with ch. 3 of Sweet Addiction and I hope that you guys liked it. Anyway, so many things going on right now. But luckily all the chaos has passed for the most part. I already started my last semester and I'm trying to concentrate tons on school since I'll be graduating in just a few months from High School. D:

On other news: I've decided, Sweet Addiction is definitely my last SC fic. I know I said I would look into it as I progressed with this fic but I've decided now. There will be no more Shugo Chara fics from me after this one. Since this is my last SC fic, I'm going to give it my all. n.n

I guess I can also tell you guys what the other project that was floating around in my mind was. I had been planning on doing a sequel to my story “In Love and In Paris.” It was going to be set in the time of the engagement between Amu and Ikuto since I had not covered that part in ILAIP. I thought it would be fitting to finish off with that project since it was a part of “Moving?” my first Shugo Chara fic that introduced me into this fanfic fandom. What better way to finish my part here eh? But yeah, that thought is now gone. Instead I decided on using this idea on a small one-shot. Be sure to read it tomorrow since its Valentine's day themed.

I know some of you will want me to continue with SC fic writing but its like, right now I don't really think I can. Maybe I'll take a break or something after Sweet Addiction and my resolution for not writing SC fics again might break but idk. Its kinda difficult.

So all I have to say is that I'm happy with what I'm doing right now, at the moment its the best. I'm very thankful to all of my reader's and reviewers that have stuck with me since the beginning or since they started to read my work. I really thank you guys. n.n You're all awesome and have managed to make me smile so many times.

My updates for Sweet Addiction are going to be coming in faster, I promise. I know I've been procratinating big time and I'm really sorry. I'll try to update weekly again, just like I used to do with my past fanfictions because if I keep my monthly pace, it would probably take me around a year to finish this fic. So, updates are coming faster, and yeah...

Also, for those of you who watch/read Soul Eater, I hope you'll drop by to read my SE fanfics, when I start them that is. ^^ Soul Eater just has me so hyped up these days and I really want to write a Soul x Maka fic. I will actually. xD -waves her Soul x Maka flags around frantically and with pride- :3 So, Soul Eater fans, I hope you'll also read my future work. xD

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT WAS SO GOOD can you belive im just reading it today my class pc were down
were will you be putting you SE fanfic i love soul eater
BLACK STAR X Tsubasa Maka x soul

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT WAS SO GOOD can you belive im just reading it today my class pc were down
were will you be putting you SE fanfic i love soul eater
BLACK STAR X Tsubasa Maka x soul

o: You love SE too? Yay!!! I'm a HARDCORE Soul x Maka fan. xDD I still don't know if I'll be posting my SE fics in this group since this one is supposed to only be for SC so idk. But I'll definitely be posting them up on my FF.net account. Username: Psychedelic-dreams. ^^

@ Gamergurl: xD Thank you. lol and yeah, I finally updated. xD I expect to update again by this friday, if FF.net lets me that is. D: I've been trying to log on to my account for the past three days but it won't let me. D: It says that there's a small glitch and to come back later but it still doesn't work. D:

@ Angel-chan: o: -pats- Its ok! I mean...um...it might not be my last fic. Maybe I'll take a break and then start writing some SC fics again. o:

gamegurl21.... just wait ok
wise advice from acrazy 15 year old: it takes time to make your favorite dish and when you get it its worth the wait.

I be waiting X3

It's just that I was wondering if she got discouraged in finishing this again

-shifts eyes nervously-

hehehe 8D;; I am going to finish it, I actually already have everything for ch. 4 written down on a piece of paper, the brainstorming I mean. xD I also already have like a 1/4 part of the chap typed up, its just that I really haven't had time to work on it. I'm drowning in exams and I feel like dying. xD

Luckily my last exam is tomorrow so if I get home early I'll be able to work on the chap and get it out tomorrow. xD